88: Dr. Greg Teaches Us to "Remember Your Death"
Do Something Beautiful
Leah Darrow
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Greg Bottaro, Executive Director of the CatholicPsych Institute, is back to talk to Leah about some timeless truths that the COVID-19 pandemic is unearthing for a lot of us.
Dr. Greg and Leah start by asking "How will you be different after this time?", which is a great question for us all to be asking. Dr. Greg points out that nothing is more revealing about what's inside us than a shake-up in our worlds, and this is a moment where the whole world is being shaken up.
This is a time to be challenged and learn about ourselves, and finding ways to grow in virtue.
This is a time to look at how we approach the concept of death - in fear and anxiety, or to remember that we have a God who has defeated death!
Challenge from Dr. Greg: Take 10 minutes to do absolutely nothing. Not prayer, not listening to music, not talking to anyone, (it's ok if you go for a walk)... but do nothing.
To learn more about the CatholicPsych Institute or to find a therapist, visit CatholicPsych.com.
Don't forget to order a copy of Dr. Greg's book, The Mindful Catholic for yourself, and one for someone else! It's that good.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Do Something Beautiful podcast. I am your host Leah Darrow and I share with you |
| 0:07.4 | inspirational people who are truly doing something beautiful to make our world better. |
| 0:12.2 | We are inspired by Mother Teresa who said, |
| 0:15.0 | do something beautiful for God. |
| 0:17.0 | Do it with your life, do it every day, |
| 0:19.0 | do it in your own way, but do it. |
| 0:28.0 | I think it just shows, and maybe a more obvious way that we've been living |
| 0:32.0 | that we are really in denial of human suffering maybe. |
| 0:37.0 | Like we've, the amount of people that have lost their lives at least here in the United States to COVID-19 |
| 0:48.6 | It's horrific. I know but it's nowhere near the loss of babies being aborted. |
| 0:54.0 | And I'm not, and of course not trying to like, you know, do a red herring or like trying to like push the attention off of something else, |
| 1:01.0 | but like in general there have there's been human |
| 1:04.8 | suffering and there's been deaths every single day going on prior to this point. But |
| 1:11.1 | I guess it's you know I don't when, when I guess COVID-19's may be different because like anybody could get it versus some of these, I don't know, other, I just, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know so much about the health pieces as much as I see the |
| 1:24.3 | reaction to this versus the reaction to other things that you know end life and I'm |
| 1:31.0 | like what like are we are are we gonna wake up and say okay is is all life |
| 1:37.5 | valuable or is it still just you where you're at in your city when the |
| 1:41.9 | pandemic is closer to you versus somebody else who's not taking it seriously. |
| 1:46.1 | You know, I don't know. Right. Yeah, yeah, like abortion is just this like peripheral thing but like if you can't get toilet paper |
| 1:54.7 | and it was on prime right now now we have to now we have to take a stand |
| 2:00.0 | like now it's something to get crazy about. Now we need to, you know, rush the capital and protest, right? |
| 2:07.1 | Because because of this and not that some of those protests don't have merit, |
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